the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING
September.
6th. 7.0 p.m. Heard astral bell, not mine but Shri Mâitrânanda’s.*
10.45-10.55 Dhâranâ on tip of nose. I obtained a clear understanding
p.m. p.m. of the unreality of that nose. This persists. An hour later
whilst breathing on my arm as I was asleep, I said to myself:
“What is this hot breath from?” I was forced to think before
I could answer “my nose.” Then I pinched myself and
remembered at once; but again breathing the same thing
happened again. Therefore the “Dhâranâtion” of my nose
dividualizes Me and My Nose, affects my nose, disproves my
nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose.
11.25-11.34
p.m. p.m.
Dhâranâ on end of Verendum.†
7th. 7.0-7.7
a.m. a.m.
Prânâyâma. 5. 10. 20.
7.15-7.37 Prânâyâma. 5. 10. 20, and five minutes of 10. 20. 30.
a.m. a.m. Tried external Kumbhaka with poorest of results.
8th. 11.0-11.5
a.m. a.m.
Dhâranâ on nose.
11.10-11.13 Dhâranâ, covering face with a sheet of thick white paper.
a.m. a.m. Very complex phenomena occur.
But this production of two noses seems to be the falling
back of the eyes to the parallel. Everything vanishes.
11.45-11.51 Dhâranâ. Ditto. There are two noses all the time. The
a.m. a.m. delusion is that you think your right eye is seeing your left
nose!
6.10-6.50 Prânâyâma 7 minutes 5. 10. 20; 6 minutes 10. 20. 30. Dhâranâ
p.m. p.m. on nose 9 minutes 50 seconds. I actually lost the nose on one
occasion, and could not think what I wished to find or where
to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri
Mâitrânanda say this is very good, and means I approach
“neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10. 20.
30. Forty minutes in the Â’sana.
10.20-10.34 Mentally muttering “Namo Shivaya Namah Aum” I did
p.m. p.m. Dhâranâ as before on my nose. I understand one Buddhist
constipation now; for: I was (a) conscious of external things
seen behind, after my nose had vanished, i.e. altar, etc.: and (b)
* We do not know what this means unless the note of Shri Mâitrânanda’s
bell was different from that of Frater P.’s. † Wand.
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